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W. AUNSPAUGH.

SLIDING GATE.

(N0-Model.)

PatentedDeo. 13, 1892-.

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WILLIAM AUNSPAUGH, OF CAIRO, MISSOURI.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 488,105, dated December13, 1892.

l Application led June 30,1892. Serial No. 438,559. (No model.)

To all whom t nutg/ concern,.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM AUNSPAUGH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Oairo,in the county of Randolph and State of Missouri, haveinvented a new and useful Sliding Gate, of which the following is aspecification.

The invention relates to improvements in sliding gates.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofsliding gates and to provide one which will be adapted for use either asa farm-gate or a railroad-gate.

rlhe invention consists in the construction and1 novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a gate constructed inaccordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, the gatebeing shown open. Fig. 3 is an end elevation showing the gate arrangedas a farm-gate. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view showing the verticalways of the gate.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

1 designates a supporting frame rising from a sill 2 and composed ofuprights 3 and a top cross-bar t and provided on its uprights withgrooved rollers 5 and 6, between which slides a gate 7, which has itsupper and lower bars 0r rails forming track-bars and' arranged in thegrooves of the rollers. 'Ihe grooved rollers are connected and supportedby horizontal bars 8 and 9, and the gate is provided nearits middle withvertical ways 10, in which is arranged a grooved roller 1l, which iscarried on the inner face and at the lower end of a gate-lever l2. Thegate-lever 12 is fulcrumed near its upper end on a horizontal arm 13 andhas its upper end connected by a bar 14 with an arm 15 of a rock-shaft16, which is journaled between extended uprights 17 and which is turnedby operating levers 18 to open and close the gate when the latter isemployed as a farm-gate, but which when used as a railroad-gate isoperated by hinged track-levers 19, which are connected with an arm 20of the rock-shaft. The tracklevers are connected to the sides of arectangular frame 21, which is hinged at its crossbar 22 to the sill andwhich has its sides connected by a bail or V-shaped frame 23 with theshort arm 20 of the rock-shaft, whereby when the wheels of a train cornein contact and depress the track-levers the rock-shaft will be turned toopen the gate. The gate is automatically closed by a spiral spring 24,which is attached to the long arm 15 of the rock-shaft and torhesupporting-frame. The operating-levers 18, which extend from oppositesides of the gate, are connected by a rod 25 with the short arm of therock-shaft and have at their outer ends depending handles. Theoperating-levers 18 and their connections with the short arm aredetachable, and the track-levers and their connections with the shortarm 20, together with the spiral spring, are also removable, so thatwhen employed as a railroad-gate only the track-levers are used and whenemployed as a farm-gate the tracklevers are dispensed with and theoperatinglevers are used. The operating-levers 1S turn the rock-shaft toopen the gate when their outer ends are elevated, and a reverse movementof the operating-loyers closes the gate. The ways 10 of the gate areformed by L-shaped anges, which take into the groove of the roller 11,making the gate slide freely without friction.

The arrangement of the gate-lever and the rock-shaft avoids anydead-center and enables the gate to be freely opened and closed.

It will be seen that the gate is simple and comparatively inexpensive inconstruction and is adapted to be used either as a farmgate or as arailroad-gate.

The track-levers are pivoted to a-rail and are operated by the wheels ofa passing train, and the gate obviates the necessity of employingcattle-guards.

Vhat I claim isl. The combination of a frame, a sliding gate providedwith Vertical ways, a gate-lever fulcrumed intermediate its ends on theframe, havingits lower end provided with a roller arranged in said ways,a rock-shaft having an arm connected with the upper end of thegate-lever, and means for turning the roekshaft, substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination of a frame, a sliding gate, a lever fulcrumed on theframe and havarm connected with the upper end of the gatelever andhaving a short arm, hinged tracklevers connected with the short arm ofthe rock-shaft, and a spring for closing the gate, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in 2o the presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM AUNSPAGH.

Witnesses:

W. C. SHIPP, M. P. CAPP.

